Pharmacy Services

• 24 Hour – 7 Day Service: providing continuous access to Sterling Pharmacy to provide the necessary care for the facilities residents; this includes after hour and holiday prescriptions.
• Cost Savings: With Sterling's large volume buying power, we are able to secure some of the best pricing in the industry. The cost savings as a client of Sterling will be passed along to the contracted facility and the residents for using our services. We save our facilities on average 10-45% off their current pharmacy bill. Sterling will also work with your facility to develop a drug formulary and will utilize formulary management to help keep costs under control.
• IV Medications: Sterling Pharmacy will be able to provide a contracted facility IV Medications should the need arise to residents, eliminating the need to leave the facility.
• Proper Packaging: Sterling Pharmacy will package all of the medications in approved containers to provide safe and effective medication handling.
• Free Delivery Service: Sterling Pharmacy will provide a delivery service free of charge. Daily deliveries will be made to the contracted facility to provide the best in healthcare services to the facilities residents.
• Long-Term Care Experience: Sterling’s pharmacists have over (20) years of experience dealing with long term care patients and their unique needs.
• Billing Options: Sterling Pharmacy has the ability to bill to the following:

1. Medicaid
2. Medicare
3. Private Pay
4. 3rd Party Insurance

• Price Comparison: Sterling Pharmacy, as a service to residents of contracted facilities, will offer to the residents a price comparison on your medication bill.
• Pharmacy Services Provided:

  1. Unit dose system
  2. Supplies related to medication administration
  3. Drug information
  4. Drug and Drug –Allergy interaction information
  5. Development and Periodic revisions of P/P related to the pharmacy.

• Emergency Box(s): containing non-narcotic and intravenous medications will be provided to facility with adequate supplies until medication delivery is received.
• Prescription Management Service – Sterling Pharmacy is setup to help contracted facilities better manage refill schedules for residents. Sterling runs a periodic weekly query from the computer system to designate resident’s medication refill schedule, allowing refills to be delivered (3-5) days before a resident runs out.